--- title: Harry Potter Memorabilia Collection Sets Guinness World Record description: Harry Potter memorabilia collection owned by Mexican lawyer sets world record at 3097 pieces canonical: https://time.com/3452667/harry-potter-memorabilia-collection/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-01T15:47:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:48:24.091Z og:title: Behold, the World's Largest Collection of Harry Potter Memorabilia og:description: It's owned by a lawyer in Mexico og:url: https://time.com/3452667/harry-potter-memorabilia-collection/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt002ac2408f3f8a1b/6986a6533617600d1390e2c7/harry-potter-collection-world-record.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: harry-potter-collection-world-record og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Behold, the World's Largest Collection of Harry Potter Memorabilia twitter:description: It's owned by a lawyer in Mexico twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt002ac2408f3f8a1b/6986a6533617600d1390e2c7/harry-potter-collection-world-record.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Behold, the World's Largest Collection of Harry Potter Memorabilia  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Oct 1, 2014 3:47 PM UTC  Rebecca Blackwell—AP  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Oct 1, 2014 3:47 PM UTC Guinness World Records has recognized a lawyer’s Harry Potter memorabilia collection as the largest in the world at 3,097 pieces. Menahem Asher Silva Vargas of Mexico City has spent 15 years amassing magic wands, toy figurines, and Hogwarts scarves inspired by the J.K. Rowling’s best-selling books. “My salary, my bonuses … it all ended up here,” he [told the AP](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/c60901760a404a208a5b131d9675374d/mexicans-harry-potter-hoard-worlds-biggest). **MORE:** [This Discovery Brings Us One Step Closer to Harry Potter’s Invisibility Cloak](http://time.com/3441875/invisibility-cloak-harry-potter-lens-rochester/) **MORE:** [Harry Potter Stamps Apparently Not American Enough](http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/11/19/stamp-collectors-upset-because-harry-potter-stamps-arent-american-enough/) ### PHOTOS: See the Harry Potter Theme Park Gringotts-Themed Ride  Universal Orlando  Universal Orlando  Universal Orlando  Universal Orlando  Universal Orlando  Universal Orlando ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3452667/harry-potter-memorabilia-collection/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3452667/harry-potter-memorabilia-collection/"},"headline":"Behold, the World's Largest Collection of Harry Potter Memorabilia","datePublished":"2014-10-01T15:47:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:48:24.091Z","description":"No word whether Guinness World Records sent an owl to notify him","url":"https://time.com/3452667/harry-potter-memorabilia-collection/","keywords":["Newsfeed","society"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt002ac2408f3f8a1b/6986a6533617600d1390e2c7/harry-potter-collection-world-record.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt002ac2408f3f8a1b/6986a6533617600d1390e2c7/harry-potter-collection-world-record.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"harry-potter-collection-world-record","caption":"","creditText":"Rebecca Blackwell—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3452667/harry-potter-memorabilia-collection/","name":"Behold, the World's Largest Collection of Harry Potter Memorabilia"}}]}] ```